Chewed bark mixed with dry gunpowder is then fastened to the stick, and the arrow is ready for use.
The gunpowder adheres to the wood, and coats it three or four inches from its end to the depth of one-fourth of an inch.
Well, well, gunpowder or pimento, I'll set fire to it if you don't be civil.
The gunpowder functionary, he of the flannel cartridge, appeared.
A pillar of black smoke shot up from where had been the Afghan gate, now shattered by the 300 pounds of gunpowder which Durand had exploded against it.
To cure the evil eye they place a little gunpowder in water and apply it to the sufferer's eyes, the idea perhaps being that the fiery glance from the evil eye which struck him is quenched like the gunpowder.
They held in their hands a preparation of gunpowder resembling common ashes; and when they found the people very stubborn they repeated their mantras over this and threw it upon the thatch of the nearest house, to which it set fire.
The gatehouse, Pavannes had shown us, might be blown up with gunpowder indeed, but we prepared to close the iron grating which barred the way half-way up the ramp.
There are also many minor industries subsidiary to paper-making and brandy-distilling, and Angouleme manufactures gunpowder and confectionery.
One of the most important applications of wood-charcoal is as a constituent of gunpowder (q.
At the very Time the Earth was rocking with the first Shock, there were profane Scoffers in Club-houses who would bet, whether it were an Earthquake or the Explosion of a Gunpowder Magazine.
And since you, Aunt, will not have the Monkey, you must be content with some Gunpowder Tea.
A barrel of gunpowderlay on his bare shoulder; and wrapped in his rough frieze coat was a delicate straw-stem fuse.
And if you evince any interest in his oft-told tale and have gained his confidence, he will take down an old gunpowder canister and reveal to you the substance of his faith.
The new gunpowder testing at Croridge promised to provide Henrietta with many of the luxuries she could have had, and had abandoned for his sake.
There was a whiff ofgunpowder exciting the atmosphere in the anecdotal part of the history known.
At first the 'Terrible explosion of gunpowder at Croridge' alarmed them lest the timely Power should have done too much.
All the new gunpowder milled in Surrey was, for some purpose of his own, stored by Lord Levellier on the alder island of the pond near his workshops, a quarter of a mile below the house.
In a Florentine document of 1326 mention is made of the use of gunpowder in Europe.
It is difficult to discover when gunpowder was first used.
He then went before the executive council of the state and asked for 500 pounds of gunpowder to be used in defense of the stations.
This reply caused the recall of Clark to the presence of the council, and the gunpowder was conveyed to Pittsburgh and delivered to Clark for the colonists.
At this Clark refused to accept the gunpowder and intimated intentions of appealing for assistance elsewhere, saying that, "A country that is not worth defending is not worth having.
I have been taken to see the curious old house of Lyveden--never finished--one of the three strange semi-religious erections of the Tresham of the Gunpowder Plot.
Indeed conditions were so bad that their weapons became almost ruined with rust and it was almost impossible to keep gunpowder in condition for use.
After the death of the great Queen, the leading conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot[28] were executed outside the West Front.
The first report was that barrels of gunpowder had been found, and strange associations were whispered as to Guy Fawkes and Louis XVIII.
Faith, there was a flash of gunpowder between us in the barge," returned the first lieutenant, "and he does not seem a man to stomach such hints as you advise.
The practical jokers in hiding beneath the staircase had with them a barrel of water, which popular indignation converted into a barrel of gunpowder intended to blow up the altar, together with the faithful assembled on its steps.
It was the popular belief at the time that Queen Marie Antoinette had determined to do some dreadful injury to Paris and other French cities; to blow them up, for instance, with gunpowder or by some secret means.
Flesselles, provost of the merchants, when a report was spread that he had concealed several barrels of gunpowder in the cellars of the Hôtel de Ville.
Some gunpowder having been found upon his person, he was asked what it was for.
So they all set to playing Catch-who-catch-can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.
If he don't mind, he'll blow himself up with his gunpowdertea before he can take his double-first.
You may have a heart which reacts as promptly as gunpowder when a spark of genuine aspiration is applied to it.
Gunpowder was also made with saltpetre and sulphur found in the country.
Furthermore, gunpowder was so scarce that it was but very seldom they had a chance of practising.
They had a hand in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, and were thought by some to have instigated the Massaere of S.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gunpowder" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dynamite; explosive; powder
